...Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed...
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) US Founding Father

The hot dog stand in the Pentagon's center courtyard, which long hasbeen a source of Cold War intrigue, will be torn down in the coming months andreplaced with a new eating facility. "Rumor has it that during the Cold War the Russians never had any lessthan two missiles aimed at this hot dog stand," said Brett Eaton, an informationand communications officer for Washington Headquarters Services. "They thoughtthis was the Pentagon's most top secret meeting room, and the entire Pentagonwas a large fortress built around this hot dog stand."

Reportedly, by using satellite imagery, the Soviets could see groups ofU.S. military officers entering and exiting the hot dog stand at about the sametime every day. They concluded that the stand was the entrance to an undergroundbunker.

Congress considersConcord hazardous?NASCAR fans might seem rabid, but are they actually contagious?Getting a hepatitis shot is standard procedure for travelersto parts of Africa and Asia, but some congressional aides were instructed to getimmunized before going to Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord and the racetrack in Talladega, Ala.

The House Homeland Security Committee planned a fact-finding tripabout public health preparedness at mass gatherings and decided to conduct theresearch at two of the nation's most heavily attended sporting events, NASCAR'sBank of America 500 event this weekend and the UAW-Ford 500 lastweekend.

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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. - P. J. O'Rourke

"What an irony that a society confronted with plastic bags filled with the remains of aborted babies should be more concerned about the problem of recycling the plastic"... - Winifred Egan